★ Game Horseshoe Original
LTA
The North American LCS, where Riot is located, experienced a major merger this year. The original Wild Card Regions of Latin America LLA and Brazil CBLOL merged into the new Region LTA this year as North and South America. In the regular season, LTA is divided into North and South, with the North being the original North American LCS, and the South being Latin America and Brazil. The top four teams in the regular season can advance to the playoffs, and in the playoffs, 8 teams from the north and south will play the knockout round, and the final champion will be determined by single Tao.
The gap between the North and the South is too great
Although many people stereotype that North America is a terrible region, and it may be a shame that it is better than a wild card, in fact, as one of the four major regions in the past, a retirement mecca for a large number of Korean aids, they still have a relatively high winning rate against wild cards. Maybe there are 1 out of 10 games and you lose 1 game, and that's a normal accident. In the playoffs, where North America and Latin America and Brazil merged together for the first time this year, there was a very large difference in strength between the North and the South. The four North American teams eliminated South America with a record of only 1 loss and 8-1.
Together, it is equal to not combining
This kind of result is very bad for wild cards, similar to the previous Turkish division, they may be able to participate in the world championship by doing their own league championship, but now after the merger, they seem to have no hope at all. North America has virtually wiped out all South American teams in a human-machine manner, and the semi-finals of the inaugural LTA have become games that are no different from those of North America in the past. 100T vs. FLY in the first half, TL vs. C9 in the second half, the only difference is probably that there is no double defeat. This merger doesn't seem to have any effect.
Emaciated camels are bigger than horses
The predicament of the North American region in recent years can be seen with the naked eye, and the scale has shrunk again and again, but after all, it is the old region that has introduced a lot of Korean aid and developed for more than ten years, and the results in the global finals in the past two years are better than those in Europe, and it is still too insulting to expect any qualitative improvement brought to them by wild cards. And this merger is more like a cost reduction and efficiency increase, and we can save some money together. Who remembers that Brazil's finals were better than those of China and South Korea? Not anymore, because the Brazilian team will most likely not be able to enter the LTA finals for the rest of their lives.
The North American team will represent LTA in the Pioneer Event
With the composition of the South American team not changing much in the future, it is difficult to see what breakthrough they can make in the short term. The North American team is much better than them, and the championship will still be in the hands of the LCS team for a long time.
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